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Running out of diskspace

I've had very little space left on the root drive for quite some time now, but I've not come around to check into the problem. After a crash today I was left with 1mb and therefore was forced to deal with this ;)

As it turned out the problem was much easier to solve than I had lead myself to believe. Not beeing very familiar with Linux that is. A quick googling gave me the following blog post from Arun. Just doing a simple du -hc –max-depth=1 gave me the directory occupying my missing space.

Sometimes things really are a lot more simple than you think...

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